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and divide we are seeing right now. shepard: kristin fisher, live in washington. the final bell is ringing on wall street. the dow is up in a pretty big way, up 167 points. a your world with neil cavuto starts now. neil: the scene right now the intercontinental hotel in new york city where the president s do to address reporters any minute. he thinks he s put this entire issue to rest with the transcript of the infamous phone call with the leader of the ukraine back in july. democrats are not so sure. we are going to be getting to read from john roberts and the second also bret baier and also senator rick scott. i want to take a peek at the corner of wall and broad because you re probably wondering in the middle of this why were stocks up? they don t think anything will convict. the president will survive it. wall street is not red or blue. it s just green. they love money and making lots of money and they think this president is the surest ticket to continue that they don t ....
more americans are fighting just to hold on to what we ve got because if incomes are growing, it s not as fast as the cost of prescription drugs and saving for retirement, housing and education. and that s when the numbers on a page are looking good. now that we re starting to see a downturn coming out of the manufacturing sector, it just demonstrates how out of touch the president is and how destructive his policies have been. he s managed to hang on, tack on an extra couple years to the obama recovery. that might be good news, but now we re in a very precarious position as an economy and as a country, especially in places like the industrial midwest. mayor pete, thank you so much for joining us. mayor pete buttigieg of south bend, indiana. reminder, mayor pete is at the 2020 gun safety forum in las vegas. the forum presented by march for our lives and giffords and moderated by our own craig melvin. watch it streaming on nbc news now and msnbc.com. see you back here at 3:00 p ....
democrats battle to take back the white house? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are following major breaking news. house democrats drop the hammer, launching a formal impeachment inquiry as the outrage over the president s ukraine phone call reaches critical mass. nancy pelosi making the announcement awhile ago, accusing president trump of betraying the nation by asking ukraine to help them hurt his potential 2020 opponent, joe biden. tonight, the president is firing back in familiar fashion, calling the impeachment probe a witch hunt. he failed trying to calm the controversy by releasing transcripts of a phone call tomorrow. all this as the person behind the whistleblower complaint that set the scandal in motion wants to speak directly with congress. the house intelligence committee chairman says that could happen as soon as this week. our correspondents, analysts, guests are sta ....
about, yet he went to him to work on an issue that s so important. that says everything about his life. thanks, antjuan, and thank you, trymaine as well. president clinton and president obama are set to speak in baltimore. andrea mitchell reports starts right now. thank you, craig melvin. next on andrea mitchell reports, the justice department opens a criminal investigation into the origins of the fbi s russia probe. what s the crime? who s under investigation? and why are the findings of the nation s 17 intelligence agencies and the republican-led senate intelligence committee not enough for the trump administration? falling in line. republicans escalate their assault on the house impeachment inquiry, trying to slow down the pace after two weeks of damaging testimony. plus going home. thousands gathering in baltimore this hour, including two former presidents, for a final farewell to congressman elijah cummings. the man that speaker of the house nancy pelosi cal ....
mean, that s the appropriate way to raise an issue with the ukrainian president, correct? it s appropriate for the justice department and the prosecutor general to cooperate and to exchange information, yes. to the extent the president has concerns and to the extent the attorney general is having u.s. attorney durham look into it, isn t it entirely appropriate for the president to flag this for president zelensky and say youn touch with our official channels? mr. castor, i don t know the precise appropriateness of these kinds of relations. now, were either of you involved with the preparation for the 7/25 call? i was not. i was not. how do you account for that? i mean, you were two of the key officials with responsibility for ukrainian policy. if the president of the united states is going to have a call with the leader of ukraine, why wouldn t you ordinarily be involved with the preparation? sir, we work for the department of state in an embassy overseas. prep ....